If you, as an author, would like to be part of an international author/illustrator tour to diverse schools and education settings let us know. Happy to donate time and resources to talk about projects any time.

Some of our digital assets

Our social business treasury and ideas hub, where we plan and manage our development aims and project detail. Find us here…

We are a diverse, remote and connected group of long time associates in our sectors – with strong contact books across the piece, with repeat business from our clients sustaining our social aims and outputs.

The companion site to our Enterprising Communities journal. The SocEntEastMids journal, Mining the Seem, is a news and information resource for social enterprises in a localised, six counties, enterprise environment.

But it is also the navigation helm and treasury for a developing range of services and events to add value to the very first principles of social business and a testament to the work of Muhammad Yunus.

Our international book project, creating opportunities for authors on one side of the globe to talk and interact with children and teachers on the other. We use new technology and real time high speed internet connections to build bridges between very different communities.

Books go Walkabout is also now our registered UK publisher brand with a range of new titles, paper and eBook, always in development.

Working with schools, children's centres, charities and social business across the UK and beyond…

We are here…

How we work…

Our Partnership is an agile and flexible professional services team. We can develop and manage projects, deliver training and board level support to organisations in our sector, as well as use our social business skills in support of organisations.

Our team has a wide variety of experience and skill across education, literacy, governance and community enterprise.

Our delivery is tempered by practical ethical business creation in the development of our own trading styles and enterprise led projects - see more on our About Us page here.

We are always happy to take a refreshing look at projects, new and existing, in order to help you add value, creatively deliver and spend to budget....

Fresh thinking and accounting?

We work across the UK and Internationally.

We have a business presence in Cambridge UK, Hong Kong and Australia.

Conversations and original project insights from our Partnership team are shared freely - always.

We will always confirm our detailed workflow and billing details in a service supply quotation (SSQ) ahead of any commission - always.

Our business centres and banking are fully tax compliant, both in the UK and overseas...

Key Contacts:

Partnership lead for Early Years, Education, Literacy, Children's books, Family projects, Faith communities, Schools and children's centres:

Ask for Sue Martin FRSA

suemartin (at) smithmartinpartnership.com

Partnership lead for Community business, Company and charity formation, Data analysis, Governance projects, Web development, Publishing and Communications:

Ask for Tim Smith MA, FRSA

timsmith (at) smithmartinpartnership.com

This month’s inspirational quotation…it helps to keep us going in difficult times…

'When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.'

Aristotle
(384 - 322 BC), a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.